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  • Rigging the Clock

    Rigging the Clock

    The explosion of academic accommodations at elite universities makes it tough to believe their students are truly smarter—or more capable—than everyone else.

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  • 10,000 PhDs

    10,000 PhDs

    A closer look at the alleged STEM ‘exodus’ reveals not a national emergency, but a government-engineered surplus decades in the making.

    I’ve always thought of myself as a glass-half-full kind of guy. Science begs to differ. A news article by Monica Hersher and Jeffrey Mervis in the January 29 edition reports…

  • How Will Universities Respond to a Post-Ayatollah Iran?

    How Will Universities Respond to a Post-Ayatollah Iran?

    In the 1970s, American campuses helped delegitimize a pro-Western Iran—today’s activism suggests they would do so again.

    Behind mass protests in Iran and the regime’s bloody crackdown looms a sense of change coming to the Middle East. While Democrats and Republicans sparred over immigration raids in Minneapolis…

  • A Double Agent

    A Double Agent

    James Armistead Lafayette’s espionage reminds us that American history thrives on complexity, not caricature.

    History reminds us who we are and how we came to be. It is for these reasons that the woke left, seeking to craft a narrative that demonizes America by…

  • What the Ivy League Is Really Selling

    What the Ivy League Is Really Selling

    Not a better education, but elite social formation.

    Should you pay for private school if you can afford it? My fiancé and I are starting to think about having kids in the next few years, and naturally, as…

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  • Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    An ed-tech executive argues higher education must adapt to AI as students and institutions prioritize job-market returns.
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    Dear Professors, Stop Using AI

    Students are rebelling against a one-way standard on AI in higher education.
  • The AI Critic

    The AI Critic

    A method for using AI to analyze and critique academic work.
  • That’s Not Good

    That’s Not Good

    A weak job market awaits recent graduates—and young men are feeling the contraction most.

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  • A White-Collar Trade School?

    A White-Collar Trade School?

    A view that college should prepare students for immediate employment is now mainstream across America.
  • Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    Is College Dead—or Just Changing?

    An ed-tech executive argues higher education must adapt to AI as students and institutions prioritize job-market returns.
  • A Market Test

    A Market Test

    Degrees that don’t deliver face a federal cutoff—just as the job market grows less forgiving.
  • That’s Not Good

    That’s Not Good

    A weak job market awaits recent graduates—and young men are feeling the contraction most.